People keep turning up dead around small-town lawyer Bosco Hoël. Sheriff Skip Hopp thinks Bosco knows more than he's telling. As if the murders aren't enough to contend with, Bosco keeps getting beaten up by the women in his life. DEAD MAN’S ACT combines edgy humor with modern-day Odinistic cults, shape-shifting Vikings and cannibalism hidden beneath the everyday routine of rural middle America.